—Lancaster Farming, Saturday. June 3. 1972
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Shropshire breeder Warn Menhennett,
Cochranville, holds a lamb while David
Greene, Scan-O-Gram operator from the
University of Maryland, measures the
'amb’s loin-eye. The Scan-O-Gram machine
seen in the background uses sonoray to
make the measurement and produces a
poloroid picture of the loin-eye. Lamb held
by Menhennet was one of 15 rams
measured during the Penn-Mar Shropshire
Anna Johnson, Market Reporter, Retires
Mrs.
Anna P Johnson, a market
news reporter with the U S
Department of Agriculture’s
Agricultural Marketing Service
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retired May 26 after her more
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Mrs Johnson, who was USDA’s
only female dairy and poultry
Club's spring meeting held at the
Menhennett Farm. Through loin-eye
measurements, Shropshire breeders are
attempting to select rams that will sire
improved lamb carcasses. Loin-eye
measurements taken during the Penn-Mar
Club meeting varied from 1.68 to 2.71
square inches per 100 pounds of body
weight.
market news reporter, spent her
entire period of Federal Service
in the Chicago office.
During her many years ser
vice, first as a clerk stenographer
and later as an administrative
assistant and market reporter,
Mrs Johnson acquired hundreds
of friends in the dairy and poultry
industries who frequently called
the office for the latest marketing
information. The efficient and
courteous service she rendered
the public was recognized by her
supervisors who awarded her
Certificates of Merit for superior
performance of duties in 1960 and
1964 In 1970 she was nominated
Federal Employee of the year for
the Chicago area by her agency
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Loans on 1971 -Crop Corn
in Warehouses Extended
Warehouse loans on 1971-crop
corn were extended at the
producers option until May 31,
1973, it was announced by the U.
S. Department of Agriculture
The extension (reseal) applies
after the regular loan maturity
date of July 31, 1972.
Farmers without farm storage
facilities will have the same
options as are available to
producers eligible for extended
farm-stored loans and can avail
themselves of any opportunity to
sell their grain at improved
market prices at a future time
period.
Previously announced were
extension of loans on two prior
crop grains in warehouse
storage. As in the case of farm-
stored reseal, Commodity Credit
Corporation pays the storage on
warehouse resealed grain. They
are: Grain Sorghum--1971 crop;
and Wheat-1970 and 1971 crops.
Soybeans, barley and oats-none
authorized.
For other crops under loan and
in on-farm storage, the following
loan extensions have been
previously announced: Barley
-1968, 1969, 1970 and 1971 crops;
Corn- 1969, 1970 and 1971 crops
(Maturity date for these ex
tended loans is May 31, 1973);
Grain Sorghum-1969, 1970 and
1971 crops; Oats-1968, 1969, 1970
and 1971 crops; Rye-1971 crop;
and Wheat-1968, 1969, 1970 and
1971 crops. (Soybeans-none
authorized.